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S 3462 110th Congress Senate Law Civil actions and liability Claims Commerce Compensation for victims of crime Concentration camps Crime and Law Enforcement Damages Deportation District courts History International Affairs Jewish holocaust (1939-1945) Jurisdiction Limitation of actions Railroads Transportation and Public Works War crimes

A bill to ensure that the courts of the United States may provide an impartial forum for claims brought by United States citizens and others against any railroad organized as a separate legal entity, arising from the deportation of United States citizens and others to Nazi concentration camps on trains owned or operated by such railroad, and by heirs and survivors of such persons.

Introduced: September 10, 2008 Introduced by: Schumer, Charles E. Democratic · New York See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Sep 10, 2008
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Grants U.S. district courts original jurisdiction over any civil action for damages for personal injury or death that: (1) arose from the deportation of persons to Nazi concentration camps between January 1, 1942, and December 31, 1944; and (2) is brought by or on behalf of such person against a railroad that owned or operated the trains on which the persons were deported and that was organized as a separate legal entity.

Provides that: (1) no law limiting the jurisdiction of the U.S. courts shall preclude any such action; and (2) no such action shall be barred because a statute of limitations has expired. Makes this Act applicable to any action pending on or commenced after January 1, 2002.

What's happening now September 10, 2008

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

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